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Fifty Years of Studies in 1'\ Ethod1st History Paoe•• DUCOI FIFTY YEARS OF STUDIES IN 1'\ ETHOD1ST HISTORY The Wesley Historical Society was established in 1893 and therefore celebrates its Jubilee this year. The early issues of the Proceedings were full of useful articles and studies for students of Methodist history. New letters of Wesley were constantly being found and corrections in the existing editions of Wesley's Journals and Letters were constantly being made. Indeed it can be safely said that we should never have had such admirable Standard Editions of both Letters and Journal but for the work of the Society. It was in the Proceedings that the suggestion was first made for the publication of these standard editions. These fifty years have seen notable achievements in the field of Methodist history. The most important of these have been the publication of the Standard Editions of Wesley's Journal (8 vols.) and Wesley's Letters. (8 vols.) and what has come to be regarded as the standard Life of John Wesley, that by Dr. J. S. Simon, in 5 vols. There is no man in English history of whose life the details are 80 fully known not only from year to year but for a great part of it from hour to hour as John Wesley; The Rev. W. B. Brash in the Didsbury College Centenary volume says "Apart from Birk­ beck Hill's editing of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, it is the most carefully and fully edited book known to us in the field of English Literature." The Editor, Rev. Nehemiah Curnock, like so many other specialists in this period, was a Didsbury man. He spent years of labour and research over the Journal and Diary and was for long held up by the shorthand of the Diary. He slept with that impossible cryptogram under his pillow until one night the secret came to him in a dream. Henry Moore had been able to read the Diary but the key had been lost. Curnock got the first volume out in October 190Q and toiled on year after year until his death at Folkestone on All Saints Day 1915. Six volumes had then appeared but most of the work had been done for the remainder. Rev. John Telford saw the last two volumes through the press and wrote his tribute to N ehemiah Curnock in the final volume on October 1st,. 1916. The careful notes and explanations page by page, the appendices and the index combine to make this edition a credit to the WESLItY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Wesleyan Bookroom as well as to the Editor, and an honour to our Church. Nearly all the helpers whose services are commemorated were members of the W.H.S. from Dr. J. A. Sharp the Book Steward, to John Telford who completed the task, then Connexional Editor. In his introduction Curnock says" The late Rev. Richard Green devoted a lifetime to the study of the Journal and to the collection of Wesley publica­ tions. His library, represented by his Wesley Bibliography, is the most complete of its kind in the world. His knowledge of the Journal text and of all the literature necessary for its exposition was unrivalled. It was exhaustive and singularly accurate. Before his death Mr. Green strongly urged that in the preparation of a Standard Edition the first editions should be practically discarded. It was full of inaccuracies, as indeed were all the editions published during Wesley's lifetime. Rev. C. H. Kelly made the photography of the Colman Collection possible. Rev. W. L. Watkinson began the task of collecting materials. Curnock also makes grateful mention of "The Rev. H. J. Foster, the Editor of the Wesley Historical Society Proceedings; the Rev. Richard Butterworth; the Rev. John Telford, who has read all the proofs; the Rev. Thomas E. Brigden, who has supplied eighteenth century prints." All these were regular contributors to the Proceedings as were A. Wallington, Rev. C. H. Crookshank and W. C. Sheldon whose work is acknowledged in the final volume. Throughout the whole of the Standard Edition the notes bear witness to the value of the W.H.S. Proceedings. The Standard Edition of the Letters is as fine a monu­ ment of loving toil and meticulous accuracy as the Journal. The credit of this must go almost entirely to John Telford. Although he states in his Preface that in such a work errors are almost unavoidable, it is improbable that Telford made many slips. When John Wesley got tired of the careless inaccuracy of Thomas Olivers at the Book Room, he would have welcomed John Telford as a nonpareil. Telford too, mentions Richard Green as his greatest helper. "In 1906 he told the Rev. Thomas E. Brigden, who shared his labours for some years, that he had secured 1600 letters which were 'ready for the printer.' He had traced above 500 original manuscript letters beside those in the Col man Collection." America and Australia came to Mr. Telford's help, but the Editor says "The most valu'able assistance in gathering together Wesley's letters has been obtained from the Proceedings of the Wesley 18 PROCEEDINGS Historical Society. Up to 1918 there had appeared in its pages 95 letters which had not been printed elsewhere. The number grows continually, and valuable notes are added which have often been of service in the preparation of the collection. We are under deep obligation to the officers of that Society, who have freely put all their resources at our disposal." He specially mentions Revs. Marmaduke Riggall and T. E. Brigden and Mr. Arthur Wa1lington. Unlike the Journal the Letters did not appear volume by volume but were published together in July 1931. Perhaps Dr. E. H. Sugden's annotated edition of Wesley's Standard Sermons should stand beside these noble editions of the Journal and the Letters. Sugden like Curnock was the son of a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and dedicated his two volumes to the memory of his father. He himself was Master of Queen's College, Melbourne, but there were still friends who treasured the memory of him at Headingley College. This work appeared in 1921 and gave the editor more scope for expressing his own views than editions of journal, diary and letters could do. Sugden included in his edition not only the 44 sermons of the "first four volumes" but the nine additional sermons which appeared in Vols. 1 to 4 in the 1771 edition of Wesley's Collected Works. The help derived from the W.H.S is .again mentioned in Sugden's preface. The Epworth Press showed the same care in the production of this work as of the other two. Perhaps it is asking too much to put in a plea, that this good task should be completed by a new edition of the remainder of Wesley's works. After the new editions of the Journal and the Letters the the most important Wesley study in the last fifty years was Dr. J. S. Simon's five volume life of John Wesley. This seems likely to become the standard life. When Dr. Simon retired from the Governorship of Didsbury College in 1913 at the age of seventy, he began his real life work. He had always been a student of Methodist history, and was an authority on Methodist Law. His 1907 Fernley Lecture on The Revival of Religion in England in the Eighteenth Century had shown how well qualified he was for his new task. "A beautiful book" Dr. Robertson Nicoll called it. He proceeded in his careful, methodical way living with his hero day by day during the remaining twenty years of his life. The first volumeJohn Wesley and the Religious Societies appeared in 1921, to be followed by John Wesley and the Methodist 19 WItSLKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Societies in 1923. These books contained the most valuable and original part of his studies. The remaining three followed the career of the great itinerant in a more pedestrian way. John Wesley and the Advance of Methodism appeared in 1925 and John Wesley, the Master Builder in 1927. After that the pace slackened with the increasing infirmity of age and he was unable to bring the Brothers Wesley to their death-beds. The final volume was completed by his son-in­ law, the Rev. A. W. Harrison, and appeared under the title John Wesley, the Last Phase. in 1934, a year after the author's death. His daughter, G. Elsie Harrison, contributed to that volume a sketch of her father which was reprinted in her book Methodist Good Companions (1935). Incidentally this led to her writing Son to Susanna (1938), the most popular and most life-like picture of John vVesley of our time. Though misunderstood in some circles, since it approached Wesley from the angle of his relations with women, it was of real historical merit. It proved that Wesley's interest in the Stanton Vicarage was with Sally rather than Betty Kirkham, though Augustin Leger had reached this conclusion at an earlier date in his La Jeunesse de John Wesley (1910). The account of the Aldersgate Street experience was a particularly useful interpretation and description. Dr. Leger also pub­ lished in English in 1910 John Wesley's Last Love. The mention of a French book on Wesley brings us to Pere Maximin Piette. Father Piette is a Belgian Franciscan whose notable book La Reaction WesUyenne dans l' ~volution Protestante was written in French and appeared in 1925. It had an immediate success and a second edition followed in 1927. The English translation was delayed until 1937 with the title John Wesley in the Evolution of Protestantism.
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